Learning & Teaching Experiences/Content What students are doing
Resources What they will use
Assessment How achievement will be judged How results will be recorded.
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Society and Environment – Investigation, Communication and Participation: Planning, Conducting, Processing and Translating
Mathematics: Location and Transformation
Information and communication technology competence: Create with ICT
Lesson 1 Prior Knowledge: Students are familiar with the internet and search techniques. Students are aware of the need to acknowledge sources of information and have completed referencing activities. Students are familiar with Activ Inspire and flip chart presentations.
Students will gather information using the focus questions, links and resources provided in the WebQuest. Students will:
Complete a retrieval chart summarising the information they have gathered in answering the focus questions.
Use the desktop tool and other tools in Activ Inspire to annotate a map detailing their flight routes and travel plans.
Include information pertaining to key, scale and bearings when completing this map.
Display these maps in a flip chart presentation.
Acknowledge information sources using references.
Question their classmates regarding directions, distance and scale as depicted on the maps.
Responding students will each have the opportunity to use interactive whiteboard to respond to a question.
Promethean Whiteboard with Activ Inspire Software.
Work samples: Annotated flip chart Retrieval chart
Teacher observation: Awareness of audience
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Society and Environment – Investigation, Communication and Participation: Planning, Conducting
Information and communication technology competence: Create with ICT
Lesson 2 Prior Knowledge: Students are familiar with concept maps and have used Webspiration on previous occasions.
Students will produce a Webspiration brainstorm that summarises information located from internet sources. This information will form the basis of a developing itinerary. Students will:
Include links to internet resources.
Organise information in such a way as to allow logical development of a time and date based itinerary.
Include travel distances and or times.
Include the location of any undertaken activities, tours etc.
Society and Environment – Investigation, Communication and Participation: Applying and Communicating Findings, Processing and translating
Literacy: Interacting with others.
Literacy: Creating texts
Mathematics: Measurement and Geometry
Lesson 3 Prior Knowledge: Students have previously covered 24hr time and are familiar with the definition of ‘verb’.
Using their completed concept maps and retrieval charts students plan an itinerary for one week of their holiday. Students will:
include dates, times, places visited and activities undertaken at that place.
use 24-hour time
use a verb to begin each part of the itinerary
present this information in a PowerPoint format in order to justify the decisions they have made regarding activities undertaken and places visited to their teacher, classmates and school principal.
Society and Environment – Investigation, Communication and Participation: Applying and Communicating Findings
Literacy: Interacting with others.
Information and communication technology competence: Create with ICT
Personal and social competence
Lesson 4 Prior knowledge: students have operated the video camera previously but have not used Windows Movie Maker.
Working collaboratively in small groups students will develop a video presentation targeted at encouraging their NZ student counterparts to return the visit. Students will take the role of potential hosts providing information NZ students may require if they were travelling to Australia. This presentation will provide information pertaining to their Australian school and community. Students will:
Plan their video using the video story board worksheet.
Decide upon group roles to create the film.
With teacher assistance upload and save their video.
Apply basic editing such as adding transitions, title clip, text overlay, music etc.
Present this video to their classmates for critiquing
Teacher observation: Group work Video Presentation
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Society and Environment – Investigation, Communication and Participation: Applying and Communicating Findings
Literacy: Interacting with others.
Information and communication technology competence: Create with ICT
Personal and social competence
Reflection Activity Students will reflect on their experiences in planning their trip and itinerary and collaboratively produce a brochure guide for their New Zealand counterparts who are about to undertake the same exercise.
Students will:
Include map and directions.
Highlight interesting facts about their town and school.
Include useful pictures
Provide information that would assist the exchange student in planning their own travel.
Provide information on useful ICT tools to help the student plan their trip.
Show awareness of audience by using language targeted at encouraging the student to visit
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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SCHOOL: York District High School YR: 5 LEVEL: Australian Curriculum Yr 5 TOPIC: New Zealand Itinerary
PROGRAM OVERVIEW FOR PERIOD Week 1 TO Week 4 LEARNING AREA: Society and Environment
Determined Outcomes
What students are doing
What they will use
How achievement will be judged
How results will be recorded.
Information and communication technology competence: Create with ICT
Prior Knowledge: Students are familiar with the internet and search techniques. Students are aware of the need to acknowledge sources of information and have completed referencing activities. Students are familiar with Activ Inspire and flip chart presentations.
Students will gather information using the focus questions, links and resources provided in the WebQuest.
Students will:
Internet
Retrieval chart
Compass point directions
Retrieval chart
Teacher observation:
Awareness of audience
Create with ICT
Prior Knowledge: Students are familiar with concept maps and have used Webspiration on previous occasions.
Students will produce a Webspiration brainstorm that summarises information located from internet sources. This information will form the basis of a developing itinerary.
Students will:
Webspiration
Example Webspiration
Webspiration concept map
Applying and Communicating Findings,
Processing and translating
Literacy: Creating texts
Mathematics: Measurement and Geometry
Prior Knowledge: Students have previously covered 24hr time and are familiar with the definition of ‘verb’.
Using their completed concept maps and retrieval charts students plan an itinerary for one week of their holiday.
Students will:
Time Guide
Example Itinerary
Starting your presentation
Power Point Hints.pptx
Itinerary
Teacher Observation:
PowerPoint presentation
Applying and Communicating Findings
Information and communication technology competence:
Create with ICT
Personal and social competence
Prior knowledge: students have operated the video camera previously but have not used Windows Movie Maker.
Working collaboratively in small groups students will develop a video presentation targeted at encouraging their NZ student counterparts to return the visit. Students will take the role of potential hosts providing information NZ students may require if they were travelling to Australia. This presentation will provide information pertaining to their Australian school and community.
Students will:
Windows Movie Maker
Fun example video
Grandpa’s excellent skating movie
Video editing tutorial
Video story board worksheet
Video Story Board
Video
Teacher observation:
Group work
Video Presentation
Applying and Communicating Findings
Information and communication technology competence:
Create with ICT
Personal and social competence
Students will reflect on their experiences in planning their trip and itinerary and collaboratively produce a brochure guide for their New Zealand counterparts who are about to undertake the same exercise.
Students will:
- Include map and directions.
- Highlight interesting facts about their town and school.
- Include useful pictures
- Provide information that would assist the exchange student in planning their own travel.
- Provide information on useful ICT tools to help the student plan their trip.
Show awareness of audience by using language targeted at encouraging the student to visitMicrosoft Publisher
Teacher observation:
Group work